Voices from the Field
Through the eyes of local experts and actors, ConstitutionNet’s ‘Voices from the Field’ series offers a monthly look at constitution building processes as they are unfolding on the ground around the world. Contributions take the form of interviews with, and opinion pieces from, constitutional experts, lawyers, practitioners and other engaged citizens in the field for a fresh and original look at issues of importance to local populations during the drafting, adoption and implementation of constitutions.
Voices From The Field
28 April 2022
Extending Parliament’s Life in Solomon Islands: a Potential Pretext for Bad Precedent
Voices From The Field
22 March 2022
Why Wales is having a national conversation on its constitutional future
Voices From The Field
28 February 2022
Hungary’s 2022 elections: Prospects for political and constitutional change
Voices From The Field
25 February 2022
Promise fulfilled? Botswana’s first comprehensive constitutional review process gets underway
Voices From The Field
24 February 2022
Belarus’s upcoming referendum: Lukashenka stacks the deck
Voices From The Field
31 January 2022
Armenia’s Constitutional Journey Continues
Voices From The Field
25 January 2022
Citizens’ Participation at the Chilean Constitutional Convention: Balancing Expectations and Efficiency
Voices From The Field
22 December 2021
In the World of Constitution Building in 2021
Voices From The Field
21 December 2021
Re-evaluating Democracy in the Federated States of Micronesia through the 4th Constitutional Convention
Voices From The Field
30 November 2021
A Balancing Act: Public Participation, Decision-Making, and Freedom of Speech at the Chilean Constitutional Convention
Voices From The Field
29 November 2021
Chad’s Military Transition Bottleneck and Deadlocks in the Constitution-making Process
Voices From The Field
19 November 2021
Restoring Constitutional Equality to Sabah and Sarawak: Do the Proposed Amendments to the Malaysian Federal Constitution Go Far Enough?
Voices From The Field
30 October 2021
The Constitutional Convention’s rules of procedure: a path of transformative institutionalism in Chile
Voices From The Field
30 October 2021
On the fragility of new democracies: Tunisia between constitutional order and disorder
Voices From The Field
28 October 2021
Luxembourg’s constitutional crescendo: will incremental reforms succeed where overhaul failed?
Voices From The Field
30 September 2021
Right to self-defence with a weapon in the Czech Republic: an unloaded gun?
Voices From The Field
25 September 2021
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Chile’s Constitutional Convention Decides its Rules of Procedure
Voices From The Field
21 September 2021
A Highly Risky Proposal to Reform the Salvadoran Constitution
Voices From The Field
31 August 2021
Peru's uncertain process to establish a constituent assembly
Voices From The Field
30 August 2021
Barbados’s Long-drawn-out Promise of a Republic